The Primroses Were Over

Favorite book of the month: The Dead House by Dawn Kurtagich

Honorable Mentions: The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Book That I Didn't Expect to Like As Much As I Did: dog songs by Mary Oliver  

Longest in pages: The Dead House by Dawn Kurtagich at 432 pages

Longest in minutes: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen at 763 minutes (it did not feel that long, wow.)

Total books ingested: 27

Re-reads: 4

Total books read: 23

Total pages read: 4167

Average pages per book: 181

Average pages per day: 138 (Possibly due to the stats listed below)

Audiobooks ingested: 4

Minutes spent Listening: 1473, or just over one solid day. Er, wow. Not sure how I feel about that, exactly.

Average minutes per audiobook: 368

Average minutes per day: 49 (though honestly, this figure is kind of weird because of how many half-finished audio-books I have. Also, I tend to binge listen. Interesting figure, though.)

Scores:

1: 0

2: 1

3: 19

4: 7

5: 0

Did not finish:  0

Average: 3.22

Reviews Written/Published: 13 (Kind of fell off the train here a tad.)

This was a decent month for reading as well as listening. I got in a lot more listening to audiobook time than I realized I had, which is nice. There are certain games (cough, cough, Diablo 3) that work remarkably well for me while listening to Jane Austen. Yes, I'm aware that that is odd, and to make it odder I tend to listen to fantasy or sci-fi while crocheting or cross-stitching. I'm an odd creature, but a very busy one this month.

I've been playing with Oyster, which is apparently shutting down just as I'm getting into it, and with Scribd, which has been awesome (and I can read it at work, which uses IE Stone Age or something) and is actually sticking around, hence the sometimes weird things I've been reading.

Like it's any weirder than usual, I know, I know.

I did a whole crop of reading/reviewing for Netgalley, since my eyes got a little bigger than my...eyes (I think I lost control of this metaphor here) and I perhaps picked out a few too many books. My percentage is not doing too badly, and I am reading at a nice steady pace, so I don't feel too worried about it, though.

I managed to find a poetry book (that I didn't love as a child...) that I really enjoyed, so that was pretty nifty. It was a random "Hey, I'll try this" checkout at the library, and it definitely was worth it.

I appear to be on a reading binge of some sort, so I'm expecting next month's totals to be moderately outrageous, especially since I have a crop of time off work coming. :)

I completely fell off the bandwagon with all of my challenges (it took me longer than usual, but gee whiz did I manage) and have been horrible with interacting with you guys, for which I apologize. I'll be better next month! I need to go back and catch up on what everyone is doing and see how many completely awesome books you found and reviewed without me!

How did everyone else's September go? Getting ready for Fall? Ready to curl up with some horror novels (I totally am.)?